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Changelog: NOT a swarm!
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Practical AI co-host, Chris Benson, joins us to discuss the latest advancements in AI, drones, home automation, and robotic swarming tech. Chris defines “swarm” with detail/precision and it turns out that what most people are calling a swarm today is NOT a swarm!
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Featuring:
- Chris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Bluesky, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- Practical AI
- Jeff Bezos takes Co-CEO role at Project Prometheus
- I Tried the First Humanoid Home Robot. It Got Weird.
- IKEA launches new smart home range with 21 Matter-compatible products
- Swarm Robotics – Wikipedia
- Swarm Robotic Platforms – Wikipedia
- Swarm Intelligence – Wikipedia
- Ant Robotics – Wikipedia
- The Matter specifications
- Home Assistant – Open Source Home Automation
- The Besieged Fortress (2006)
- Programming Multiple Robots with ROS 2
- ROS 2 Multi-Robot Simulation Best Practices
- Hugging Face AI Agents Course
- Embassy – Embedded async framework for Rust
- Tokio – Asynchronous Runtime for Rust
- Beginner’s Guide to Self-Hosting Your Own AI
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
Chapters
1. Let's talk! (00:00:00)
2. Sponsor: Tiger Data (00:00:37)
3. Skype & Friends (00:02:20)
4. Too late for NVDA? (00:05:40)
5. Not a recent thing (00:07:00)
6. Picking winners (00:09:18)
7. Open models FTW (00:13:02)
8. Peak parameter? (00:13:45)
9. Project Prometheus (00:15:46)
10. What is cool? (00:19:49)
11. Roomba is the future (00:26:22)
12. Home automation (00:29:43)
13. Sponsor: Namespace (00:31:53)
14. IKEA gets in the game (00:33:31)
15. Matter-compatible (00:33:53)
16. Air autonomy (00:34:48)
17. Animals swarm (00:36:55)
18. The swarm definition (00:38:55)
19. E pluribus unum (00:41:05)
20. The Besieged Fortress (00:44:14)
21. Not a swarm! (00:49:23)
22. Mission control (00:51:24)
23. The case of the queen (00:55:06)
24. Humans on-the-loop (00:59:16)
25. Jerod sniffs danger (01:02:38)
26. Inflating billions (01:05:50)
27. Sponsor: Augment Code (01:06:33)
28. Sponsor: NordLayer (01:08:03)
29. Aladdin's genie problem (01:10:49)
30. State of the art (01:14:23)
31. The next three years (01:15:46)
32. Adam's three use cases (01:18:58)
33. Also not a swarm (01:21:57)
34. Where the people swarm (01:24:01)
35. Go make stuff (01:30:52)
36. Chris on Alexa (01:33:49)
37. Take the power back (01:36:38)
38. Adam's idea (01:37:23)
39. Bye, friends (01:38:32)
40. Next week on the pod (01:39:35)
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